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Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!”

Years Thousand Flying Legends Thousand Years Pilgrim

Book:A Fire Upon The Deep

Source: A Fire Upon The Deep

“The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.”

“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”

Years Firsts Has Beens War Changed Thousand Years Ago Innovation Nine Civilized Genes Thousand Years Eleven Civilized Society Prehistory

Author:Gwynne Dyer

“When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.”

Years Sun Thousand Moon Twenties Threat Seven Accomplished Cycles Thousand Years Prophecy Exhausted Reign

Book:The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

Source: The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

Ifs Years Humans Stills Might Lasts Humanity Race Wise Baby Thousand Eating Hundred Human Race Get Better Thousand Years Cerebral Getting Started

Book:A Dangerous Age: A Novel

Source: A Dangerous Age: A Novel

“It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.”

Years Doe Has Beens Happens Fighting Three Courses Evil Term Teach Hell Buddhism Thousand Accidents Scripture Thousand Years Messengers Priesthood

Book:Musashi

Source: Musashi

“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”

Men Years Literature Wise Thousand Years Ago Raises Ignorant Live Life Thousand Years Raises Questions

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?”

Years Heart Might Turns Chance Walks Trouble One Day Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Convenient Heart Attack

Author:Garth Nix

“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

“If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.”

“The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.”

Years Persons Philosophy Buddhism Thousand Thousand Years Confusing Monk Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.”

People Way Years Book Language Growing Up Growing Century Dying New York Thousand Thousand Years 20th Century Provinces Marrying Our Town

Book:Our town: a play in three acts

Source: Our town: a play in three acts

“Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.”

Men Years Two Nations Born Moral Vision Atheism Thousand Positive Atheism Thousand Years Hebrew

Author:James Henry Breasted

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.”

Years Done Can Do Atheism Ought Praying Thousand Worship Years Ago Positive Atheism Thousand Years Praying To God

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.”

“The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.”

World Years Stills Country Light Gone Our Lives Atheism Thousand Ordinary Positive Atheism Thousand Years

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.”

“If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.”

Ifs Years Book Waiting Thousand Six Hundred Contemplating Thousand Years

Author:Johannes Kepler

“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Ifs World Years Littles Has Beens Grows Nature Simple Sun This World Thousand Spring Rain Green Thousand Years

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Dream Lasts Teach Four Lessons Thousand Activity Judgment Operations Thousand Years Tribes Suspended Dormant

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”

Men Years Looks House Five Thousand Achievement Instinct Improvement Bees Thousand Years Hives Beavers

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”

Knows Way Years Enjoy Effects Thousand Prosperity League Thousand Years

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.”

Years Two Real Divine Thousand Fame Highest Eternity Critics Endure Thousand Years Wretched Rhetorical Renown

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.”

Years Art Age Nature Fool Thousand Six Idle Thousand Years Mushrooms Antiques

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

Way Years Hands Law Moral Gone Taken Civilization Thousand Intellectual Bible Species Thousand Years Hand In Hand Cultivation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.”

Years Two Christian Lasts Thousand Guilt Invention Thousand Years

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Doe Two Happens Deals Perspective Thousand Exciting Yesterday Thousand Years Manuscripts Persian

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.”

Knows Years Wells Two Might Happens Thousand Bible Paint Biblical Thousand Years

Author:Grandma Moses

“Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?”

Giving Years Enemy Citizens Thousand Giving Up Frightened Thousand Years Nsa American Citizens

Author:Rand Paul

“For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.”

Years Given Virtue Greatness Type Kings Thousand Thousand Years Manly Christendom

Author:Theodore Parker

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.”

Years May Thousand Years Ago Customs Thousand Years Honorable Infamous

Author:Charlotte Lennox

“With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.”

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”

Ifs Years Mean Has Beens Order Natural Feminism Thousand Female Males Feminist Sexism Ownership Thousand Years

Book:Just As I Thought

Source: Just As I Thought

“No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.”

Ifs Way Should Years Believe Mean Children Given Thousand Simplicity Scripture Lions Thousand Years

Author:M. R. DeHaan

“The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.”

World Years Earth Courses Rooms Existence Millions Thousand Spots Thousand Years Germs

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.”

Years Behinds Car Civilization Thousand Ten Driving Instant Wheels Shed Thousand Years

Author:Ruth Rendell

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

World Years May Has Beens Two Philosophy Values Pleasure Genius Thousand Fame Doctrine Sensuality Chiefs Thousand Years Reproach Duration Calumny

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.”

Years Difficult Walking Thousand Miles Thousand Years Coming Back Sad Love Walking Alone

Author:Faraaz Kazi

“I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.”

Years States Couple Civilization Thousand Western Definitions Thousand Years Western Civilization

Author:Gary Bauer

“Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.”

Years Novel Communication Reader Thousand Direct Thousand Years Essays Balzac Direct Communication

Author:Gore Vidal

“Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.”

Years Certain Civilization Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Inadequate

Author:Gertrude Atherton

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